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CORAL TREE

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Meaning:

Any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental

Synonyms:

coral tree; erythrina

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coral tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral tree"):

Cape kafferboom; Erythrina caffra; kaffir boom (small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles)

coral bean tree; Erythrina corallodendrum (deciduous shrub having racemes of deep red flowers and black-spotted red seeds)

ceibo; common coral tree; cry-baby tree; crybaby tree; Erythrina crista-galli (small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered)

Erythrina lysistemon; kaffir boom; Transvaal kafferboom (small semi-evergreen tree of South Africa having dense clusters of clear scarlet flowers and red seeds)

Erythrina Indica; Erythrina variegata; Indian coral tree (small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds)

cork tree; Erythrina vespertilio (prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood)

Holonyms ("coral tree" is a member of...):

genus Erythrina (genus of attractive tropical shrubs or trees with usually red flowers)

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